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"Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead is surely one of Avatarium's finest LPs due to its consistent songwriting and familiar yet wide-ranging...
"Simply calling this black metal, or even post-black metal, risks overlooking the ways this band has grown past labels, pursuing catharsis instead of acceptance."
Greetings once again all you metal nerds. This was a rough week. Rough in a sense that there was almost too much good stuff...
Listening to a new, young band like Starkill is sort of like playing a game of audio charades. Who do they most sound like?
The Ocean Collective (or just The Ocean) is not a band to be taken lightly, even if that were possible. They are musicians in...
Everyone has that band that got them into music, or into a genre. And no matter how mediocre or revolutionary that band is, you'll...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
The resurgence of that classic heavy metal sound abounds in a huge way lately, though under the guise of labels like "stoner rock" and...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
In the right hands, music is a life-sustaining force. On their second album, Thrawsunblat have channeled the pain of real-life tragedy and death into...
The Omega Experiment's self-titled debut has been out for a little over a year now, but the April 9 re-release on Listenable Records is...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
It's hard to come up with a genre classification that Italy's Nero Di Marte easily fit into. That makes writing about the band a little...
It's somewhat disarming that, in an era where bands are forced to deliberately misspell (Pyyramids, CHVRCHES) or omit vowels (VYGR, MSTRKRFT) from their names in order...
There are thousands upon thousands of forgotten bands buried and rotting in the coffin of time. And while the heap is often justifiable hill...
It’s been a little too long since we’ve seen something new from Bring Me The Horizon. They’re one of the more respected names in...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
If you can picture yourself sitting in the darkest space imaginable for years with nothing more than a pen to record and isolate your...
All in all, it's a great time to be a fan of heavy music. There are an abundance of bands out there who are...
The slow tempo of a bass drum jolts on like a heartbeat through the speakers as the bass throbs and feedback wails. Wasting almost...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
When I first discovered Incendiary on the first edition of MetalSucks' NYC Sucks sampler, their track "Victory in Defeat" instantly made them my new...
After spending some time in other projects for a short while, the members of Sevendust have gotten back together and produced a new album....
In case you haven’t heard the news or the teaser material, Finnish humppa-metallers Finntroll—Vreth, Trollhorn, Beast Dominator & Co.—are back with their seventh studio...
You'd be hard pressed to find a metal band more hyped than Kvelertak in the last two years. Having released their self-titled debut in 2010 through...